Baghdad's Pencil Shop with 1 Million Pencils ✏️

Can you tell I was excited?🤣 Ali Al-Mandlawi has been running this pencil shop in Baghdad for 40 years now and he’s a magician!! Absolutely LOVE people who have a passion for such obscure things. It’s so fascinating and impressive. What a random obsession to have but so brilliant!! I wish I spoke Arabic, I had soooo many questions for him.

But yeah I’m still not sure if the shop in Tehran still exists or not. If any of you have been there please confirm!! Would love to know. We searched a lot for it but were told that it has been shut for two years but I’m still not sure if it was indeed a pencil shop like this one.